'We've worked with Frigoscandia before on another site, so we knew it would be good'.

Snowbird Foods manufacture a complete range of fully-cooked sausages, saveloy, frankfurters and a range of stuffing balls and meatballs. These ready-cooked products are ideal for ready-meal manufacturers, airline caterers and high volume fast food outlets.

Snowbird Foods were previously running two main production lines using liquid nitrogen freezers, but at very high production costs. To improve production capacity, quality and to provide more flexibility in a tight-for- space factory, Snowbird have recently installed three Frigoscandia GYRoCOMPACT, GCM76 spiral freezers and a FRIGoPAK LVS, Low Volume Refrigeration System, all providing reduced production costs. The central refrigeration system allows different temperatures to be selected at each spiral if production demands it. The system design allows for a total capacity of 4.5 t/h based upon three 1.5 t/h production lines of cooked sausages and meatballs. Philip Paul, managing director at Snowbird Foods said: "We gave FMC FoodTech a very challenging installation brief. The first freezer was installed and the factory area split off to allow the other two to be installed. We ran the first freezer 24 hours per day for five days per week over a period of three weeks, whilst achieving 1.5 t/h throughput. We shoe-homed three freezers and the refrigeration plant into a space seemingly tight for just one, while keeping the factory running and causing minimal interruption to production.

"The people at FMC EoodTech were excellent at communicating with us, in good time, about any minor changes. We've worked with Frigoscandia before on another site, so we knew it would be good."

Contact FMC FoodTech on 01234 841177 or visit www:fmcfoodtech.com

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